Escaped from Sebastopol extremist confessed that he had been recruited by the terrorists

Escaped from Sebastopol extremist confessed that he had been recruited by the terrorists

17.08.2016

Crimean blogger Yury Ilchenko, who escaped from house arrest in Sebastopol, announced in Kiev.

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Yuri Ilchenko – Sevastopol, the owner of a private school of foreign languages in the Crimea. FSB accuses him of extremism for a number of articles calling for the revision of the status of Crimea. July 2, 2015 in Sevastopol the apartment of a 37-year-old male security officers conducted a search, and then put him in the detention center of Simferopol, where he spent 11 months. During interrogations, Ilchenko no secret of his political views, and said that he had refused to take Russian citizenship. As reported by his father Gennady Ilchenko in an interview with the Kiev editions, after the annexation of Crimea to Russia several times Yuri traveled to Ukraine, which issued a passport. Also Ilchenko was exempt from military service for health reasons – my father told me that the reason of mental problems.

When Yuri Ilchenko learnt that against it criminal case, then asked my dad to buy tickets to Lviv for the whole family, but the trip fell a few times for different reasons. A few days before his arrest, the jury complained to the father attempts to bring him to the terroristattacks by unknown people. “A week before the arrest of the son approached the unknown woman with the proposal to extend the Sevastopol leaflets with calls to resist the invaders and to blow things up. The son sent her to hell.” – says Gennady Ilchenko. He also said that the FSB had planned to accuse his son of molesting underage female student at his school, but in the end the blogger made other accusations.

He was charged with article 280 and 282 of the criminal code “public calls to extremist activities and inciting ethnic hatred or enmity. In June 2016 Ilchenko was released under house arrest, which he served in his apartment in Sevastopol.

According to the blogger, it is understood that the term which he will serve more than 10 years is too huge, so he decided to escape. On the night of July 12, Ilchenko cut protective bracelet with a kitchen knife, and hitched to the border with Ukraine, Crimea. At night, he illegally crossed the border and this morning were already in Ukraine.

According to him, he had the money for a ticket to Nikolaev, where he regained his card, and went to Lviv. Now Ilchenko arrived to Kyiv to give an interview to Ukrainian journalists.